The WORST episodes of Doomwatch

#1 - Waiting for a Knighthood

Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 6/26/1972

The episode begins with a vicar, the Reverend Frank Simpson giving a sermon to a half full congregation, one of whom is Dr. Anne Tarrant who begins to notice how the man is starting to ramble, and become incoherent. He looks drunk. He comes from the pulpit and starts to wander around... By the time he collapses, a party of school children are being escorted out by their teacher. Anne asks for an ambulance, watched by the vicar's concerned wife...

#2 - The Red Sky

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 4/6/1970

A land rover pulls up underneath a light house high up on a cliff overlooking the English channel. Bernard Colley and his daughter Dana sees their friend Captain Tommy Gort coming out of the building to greet them – they think. But instead he is lurching, a haunted expression on his face towards the edge of the cliff. The Colleys are horrified. 'Why the hell isn't Quist here?' says Bernard. They run after him but they are too late. Gort stops at the edge of the cliff, clutching his head in pain. Inevitably, he topples over and plunges to his death.

#3 - Spectre at the Feast

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 4/13/1970

#4 - Train and De-train

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 4/20/1970

A small boy runs across a field into a forest, snapping a stick of a tree as he goes. Stick in hand he pauses by a tree to catch his breath while looking around the forest. He hears a noise from the tree above which scares him and he runs off. He sees a squirrel in the tree and throws the stick at it and hides behind another tree. He makes his way up the tree trying to reach the squirrel he threw the stick at. As he gets close the animal falls stiffly from the tree. The squirrel lies dead on the forest floor....

#5 - The Battery People

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 4/27/1970

Tough ex-miners in South Wales drinking gin instead of the traditional beer, giving their wives the cold shoulder and secretly turning to cock-fighting. It all sounds wildly out of character to Dr Quist and his team, who investigate despite the fact that all this is taking place in the Minister's own constituency.

#6 - Hear No Evil

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 5/4/1970

#7 - Survival Code

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 5/11/1970

#8 - Fire and Brimstone

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 6/5/1972

#9 - High Mountain

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 6/12/1972

#10 - Say Knife Fat Man

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 6/19/1972

#11 - Burial at Sea

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/23/1970

#12 - Without the Bomb

Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 7/3/1972

#13 - Hair Trigger

Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 7/10/1972

'Man isn't born free. For him...the dreadful has already happened. He has to live with the nightmare, or rise above it. And natural evolution is too slow. The episode begins with an establishing shot of the outside of Weatheroak Hall Maximum Security Medical Research Unit (Owned by The Department of Health and Social Security). The building is surrounded by a large wall covered in barbed wire and pointed glass shards....

#14 - Deadly Dangerous Tomorrow

Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 7/17/1972

#15 - Enquiry

Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 7/24/1972

#16 - Flood

Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 7/31/1972

#17 - Cause of Death

Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 8/7/1972

#18 - The Killer Dolphins

Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 8/14/1972

#19 - Winter Angel

Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 12/16/1999

Astrophysics lecturer Neil Tannahill receives an enigmatic note from Dr. Spencer Quist, former head of Doomwatch, and finds himself drawn into a sinister conspiracy involving Soviet nuclear waste secretly stored at a British nuclear facility.

#20 - Friday's Child

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/16/1970

#21 - The Iron Doctor

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 1/25/1971

A geriatric hospital ward at Parkway and a very elderly patient, George Mason, connected to a drip feed, is delighted with a letter he has received telling him that his great-grandson is to be named after him. His fellow patient in the next bed, Mr Faber is pleased for him. Watching George on a small monitor screen are Doctors Carson, Eric Godfrey and the Duty Nurse who are all pleased for him. Godfrey thinks it is all thanks to the monitoring equipment which dominates the room in the form of huge units. 'The computer?' sneers Carson. 'It did not give him his great grand-son.' 'Kept him alive to see him,' points out Godfrey. They can hear voices from the monitor as the boss of the hospital is giving a conducted tour to VIPs of their impressive outfit. 'Whitaker's sunshine tours!' says Carson.

#22 - You Killed Toby Wren

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 12/14/1970

... Ninety seconds to go, says Quist from the end of the pier as Toby Wren on the other side is cutting wires leading inside a ticking nuclear bomb, wedged amongst the struts of the pier support. As two suited men arrive to take over, Toby, full of relief, thinks he has succeeded in disarming the explosive. But to his horror, he discovers one more wire, and he has dropped the clippers into the sea. As he tries to manually undo the wire from its terminal, the trip motor activates....

#23 - Invasion

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 12/21/1970

DOOMWATCH MAN HELD DR JOHN RIDGE, 38, a member of the controversial Doomwatch team was held for 24 hours today by a 'mystery' Army unit in a remote Yorkshire village.....

#24 - The Islanders

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/4/1971

ISLANDERS FLEE The 200 inhabitants of the tiny Pacific Island of St Simon are to be evacuated. The British Government believes that this mini protectorate is in grave danger following recent earth tremors. A Royal Navy frigate is now steaming towards the island to bring people home to the country their forefathers left two centuries ago.

#25 - No Room for Error

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/11/1971

We see a distressed young girl being made comfortable in an isolation ward. The Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Ian Phelps is told by the hospital's Senior House Officer that the young girl, Doreen Taylor, who has typhoid, is not responding to any of the other antibiotics. It is a totally resistant strain. There are four other suspect cases, all from Doreen's school and they have visited a lot of areas. 'So it's bad, we could be on the verge of an epidemic,' says Phelps. 'Yes. And absolutely no effective drug to fight it with.'...